Posted on 02/07/2020 8:49:35 AM PST by elpadre
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is currently withholding approval for at least six commercial orders for arms and ammunition from U.S. companies to Ukraine, BuzzFeed has reported.
"The Trump administration is currently withholding approval for at least six commercial orders for arms and ammunition from US companies to Ukraine, together worth roughly $30 million, according to three current Ukrainian officials and a former senior U.S. official who have direct knowledge of the sales, straining an already fragile relationship between the two countries," says the article posted on the BuzzFeed's website on Thursday.
All four officials said that five of the pending sales from U.S. companies have been delayed for around a year, and one of the sales has been held up for more than a year. The officials said they haven't been able to get any answers from the Trump administration about why the deals, which typically take around two months to approve and must be licensed by the State Department, haven't received approval.
"It might be wise for the Ukrainians to look for other sources" from which to buy arms and ammunition, said the U.S. official, who said he has questioned senior White House and State Department officials about the issue.
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv declined to comment on the matter, and the White House and State Department did not respond to requests for comments. Ukroboronprom, the Ukrainian state-owned arms conglomerate and the official buyer of all the arms and ammunition, also didn’t respond when asked for comment.
"Two Ukrainian officials who spoke to BuzzFeed News believe the delays could be related to a Chinese attempt to buy a strategic Ukrainian aerospace company that the U.S. has tried to block, raising the possibility of Kyiv getting caught up in a power play between Beijing and Washington," BuzzFeed said.
It’s amazing what happens when you fight back, ain’t it?
As another poster noted on another thread; Ronald Reagan was there for HIS time, and was what was needed then.
Trump is here for THIS time, and is what is needed now.
Pretty much spot-on, I’d say.
I don’t readily see an author for the article. Don’t understand why this is side bar worthy.
More lying by the Fake News
I love it when you use whore-speak!
More fake news I am betting
Are you talking about Ukraine, The Final Piece?
:^) Who loves ya, baby??? :^) :^) :^)
That sale would be a national security disaster for the US
Abraham Lincoln was considered a great speaker. But he wasn’t. He WROTE beautifully, and his speeches are amazing, but he had a high-pitched somewhat screechy voice. We think the speeches are awesome because we READ them. (BTW, Ditto William Jennings Bryan, who is pretty boring).
Lincoln with his voice would never have worked on radio. But Franklin D. Roosevelt had a honey-sweet voice and a presence on radio that came across as though he was everyone’s best friend. But FDR was in a wheelchair-—something very few people knew. He would never have worked in late 20th century politics with television. Probably it wasn’t til Greg Abbott actually broke the barriers that a person in a wheelchair could be considered a leader.
Reagan came along at the perfect time: the age of television. He had a photographic memory so he never had to look at the teleprompter. Unlike Trump, he had perfect dramatic timing and never stepped on an applause line. His years of memorizing scripts meant that he was fluid in his delivery. And most of all, the big three nets had to carry EVERY presidential speech and did so without ANY panel of idiots attacking the speech before it was given, or dissing it afterwards.
But Reagan would not be effective today. He was way too nice. I liken him to a Muhammad Ali-—terrific boxer. But we are in the age of a cage match, where you need elbows, head, knees. Trump is that guy.
I remember Ronaldus Magnus, very fondly.
He was an amazing man.
Hard not to smile when I think back on those days; he drove the left nuts too...
Except half of the employees and the tachnology are already in China.
Yeah.
From both ends
The chances are slim at this point.
This really highlights the destructiveness of the Obama Admin and the Democrats as a whole .
Massive injections of billions in foreign aid to Ukraine would have been more than sufficient to stabilize Sich and forestall a Chinese acquisition but the billions were just flat stolen or diverted to political entities used to forward The Progressive global agenda
do you have the link would love to check it out. Beck is a very good researcher
Fingers crossed.
“Barr can no longer sit on his ass.”
That’s a switch, but I’m with you.
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